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Meaning behind frank ocean blonde album2/16/2023 ![]() ![]() Ocean delivered Endless instead, fulfilling his deal and severing his contractual ties to the major.īut to release another full-length, fully-realized album outside the label’s purview just 24-hours later is controversial, to say the least, and a source tells Billboard that while UMG hasn’t taken any legal action against Ocean or his team, the label group may have grounds to do so. ![]() Now it appears that Ocean, perhaps through an advance via his new deal with Apple (though one source suggests a separate, private benefactor), paid that amount back to Def Jam, absolving him of any recoupable claims from Def Jam/UMG and essentially buying Ocean his own recordings back. ![]() In July, Billboard reported that Def Jam had spent as much as $2 million on recording costs for Ocean’s album, at the time thought to be called Boys Don’t Cry. ![]() Now, the question is, how did Ocean win this battle? Did he? And what does it mean for the other labels, streaming services and the industry at large? UMG chairman/CEO Lucian Grainge reacted swiftly by informing the heads of his labels that Universal was done with streaming exclusives on one platform and on a global basis, which has been at the center of the streaming services’ arms race in the last 18 months, though it remains unconfirmed whether or not Grainge’s policy change was a direct result of Ocean’s strategy behind Blond. Frank Ocean’s ‘Blonde’: 10 MVPs Who Contributed to the Album ![]()
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